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Project Veritas is one...sure there was a hidden camera but some of the employees were quite candid with their beliefs. I don't mean to paint a broad stroke, bu

Project Veritas is one...sure there was a hidden camera but some of the employees were quite candid with their beliefs. I don't mean to paint a broad stroke, but from the interviews, it seems like the culture of the company leaned a certain political direction.

tsimionescu 4y ago
Project Veritas has a long history of deceptive editing and outright manufactured reporting, so I wouldn't trust any report you see out of them.
- dezeiner 4y ago
  This is a tired and often parroted talking point used to dismiss literal hours of continuous footage of execs rambling on and on about enacting their political agendas in the workplace.
  - briantakita4 4y ago
    It's another form of gaslighting people into not believing their own eyes & ears...
    - tchaffee 4y ago
      > It's another form of gaslighting people into not believing their own eyes & ears... How are we supposed to believe our eyes and ears when you haven't provided any links to video for us to watch?
  - tchaffee 4y ago
    > literal hours of continuous footage Where? Can you provide a source?
    - origin_path 4y ago
      The source is Project Veritas. Why not go to their website and take a look? There have been a whole bunch of cases where they got Twitter staff on record to say damning things. And no, it's not out of context. The statements are in context and speak for themselves. You can watch the videos or listen to the recordings to hear it for yourself. If you want to argue this source isn't valid, you need to prove it, because the evidence is there. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-talks-elon-musk-takeover-in-new-undercover-video/ https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-... Twitter engineer: “Our jobs are at stake, he's a capitalist and we weren't really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist. Like we're all like commie as f*k.” ... “Twitter does not believe in free speech… Elon believes in free speech.” https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-executive-mocks-elon-musk-for-believing-public-can-make-their-own/ https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-executive-mocks-... Twitter Lead Client Partner: “The rest of us who have been here believe in something that's good for the planet and not to give people free speech.” ... “People don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out -- correct things that are supposed to be out in the public, right?” ... “If we’re implementing all these rules…and Elon wants to dismantle them, then technically our ideology has led us to not making money because we’re not making money, and Elon wants to turn it the other way so that we can make money,” https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/ https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter... “if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account… it’s at your discretion” ... Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, “we’re trying to ‘down rank’… shitty people to not show up,” “we’re working [that] on right now” Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer: “Yeah you look for Trump, or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck. Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.” ... “the majority of it are for Republicans”
      - tchaffee 4y ago
        > Why not go to their website and take a look? Sure. Given links I'll do that. I just did right now since you are the first person to actually provide links. The claim was: > literal hours of continuous footage None of the links you provided come even close to that claim. They are FULL of cuts. Many of them don't even include the question that was asked! And even you took quotes out of context. The quote "Twitter does not believe in free speech" was qualified by a followup that free speech allows bullying and that Twitter does not believe in bullying because it's bad for business! Which is totally reasonable if you are an advertising platform. Can you provide what I asked for? The source to "literal hours of continuous footage"? Also, please stop giving quotes to your links. You've done exactly what people already claimed: taken things out of context to try to make them look worse than they really are. Folks can watch uncut videos themselves and make up their own minds. If these "literal hours of continuous footage" actually even exist.
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- briantakita4 4y ago
  Commentary aside, the video does not lie. Also the entire unedited interview is available.
  - tchaffee 4y ago
    > Commentary aside, the video does not lie. Ok, but what video? You didn't give any links. > Also the entire unedited interview is available. Where? People keep claiming unedited video is available but no one can produce a link to such video.
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tsimionescu 4y ago

Project Veritas has a long history of deceptive editing and outright manufactured reporting, so I wouldn't trust any report you see out of them.

dezeiner 4y ago
This is a tired and often parroted talking point used to dismiss literal hours of continuous footage of execs rambling on and on about enacting their political agendas in the workplace.
- briantakita4 4y ago
  It's another form of gaslighting people into not believing their own eyes & ears...
  - tchaffee 4y ago
    > It's another form of gaslighting people into not believing their own eyes & ears... How are we supposed to believe our eyes and ears when you haven't provided any links to video for us to watch?
- tchaffee 4y ago
  > literal hours of continuous footage Where? Can you provide a source?
  - origin_path 4y ago
    The source is Project Veritas. Why not go to their website and take a look? There have been a whole bunch of cases where they got Twitter staff on record to say damning things. And no, it's not out of context. The statements are in context and speak for themselves. You can watch the videos or listen to the recordings to hear it for yourself. If you want to argue this source isn't valid, you need to prove it, because the evidence is there. https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-talks-elon-musk-takeover-in-new-undercover-video/ https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-senior-engineer-... Twitter engineer: “Our jobs are at stake, he's a capitalist and we weren't really operating as capitalists, more like very socialist. Like we're all like commie as f*k.” ... “Twitter does not believe in free speech… Elon believes in free speech.” https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-executive-mocks-elon-musk-for-believing-public-can-make-their-own/ https://www.projectveritas.com/news/twitter-executive-mocks-... Twitter Lead Client Partner: “The rest of us who have been here believe in something that's good for the planet and not to give people free speech.” ... “People don’t know how to make a rational decision if you don’t put out -- correct things that are supposed to be out in the public, right?” ... “If we’re implementing all these rules…and Elon wants to dismantle them, then technically our ideology has led us to not making money because we’re not making money, and Elon wants to turn it the other way so that we can make money,” https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter-engineers-to-ban-a-way-of-talking-through-shadow-banning-algorithms-to-censor-opposing-political-opinions/ https://www.projectveritas.com/news/undercover-video-twitter... “if it was a pro-Trump thing and I’m anti-Trump… I banned his whole account… it’s at your discretion” ... Olinda Hassan, Policy Manager for Twitter Trust and Safety explains, “we’re trying to ‘down rank’… shitty people to not show up,” “we’re working [that] on right now” Parnay Singh, Twitter Direct Messaging Engineer: “Yeah you look for Trump, or America, and you have like five thousand keywords to describe a redneck. Then you look and parse all the messages, all the pictures, and then you look for stuff that matches that stuff.” ... “the majority of it are for Republicans”
    - tchaffee 4y ago
      > Why not go to their website and take a look? Sure. Given links I'll do that. I just did right now since you are the first person to actually provide links. The claim was: > literal hours of continuous footage None of the links you provided come even close to that claim. They are FULL of cuts. Many of them don't even include the question that was asked! And even you took quotes out of context. The quote "Twitter does not believe in free speech" was qualified by a followup that free speech allows bullying and that Twitter does not believe in bullying because it's bad for business! Which is totally reasonable if you are an advertising platform. Can you provide what I asked for? The source to "literal hours of continuous footage"? Also, please stop giving quotes to your links. You've done exactly what people already claimed: taken things out of context to try to make them look worse than they really are. Folks can watch uncut videos themselves and make up their own minds. If these "literal hours of continuous footage" actually even exist.
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briantakita4 4y ago
Commentary aside, the video does not lie. Also the entire unedited interview is available.
- tchaffee 4y ago
  > Commentary aside, the video does not lie. Ok, but what video? You didn't give any links. > Also the entire unedited interview is available. Where? People keep claiming unedited video is available but no one can produce a link to such video.

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